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Posted by Underdog on Fri Sep 23rd at 10:33am 2005

The question has been brought up before, but not recently enough to be a pain to do again. Looking toward the American northwest region specifically,I am taking this poll with no hidden agendas. What you need vote is, "What is your basic manufactured machine made from"

If your machine was purchased at Best Buy, but you upgraded the s**t out of it, it is still a premanufactured job. If you bought the components at Best Buy and assembled them yourself then its home made. Its that simple.




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Posted by Jinx on Fri Sep 23rd at 10:58am 2005

I'd prefer an AMD in some ways, but this is a great box. I got a good deal on the CPU from Intel for doing retail training with them last year.

P4 3.47GHZ w/ Gigabyte heatsink/fan
2.5GB PC3200
GeForce 6800GT 256MB AGP w/ Arctic Cooling
Maxtor 250GB Hard Drive
Abit AS8 865 Chipset, 775/AGP/DDR1 Motherboard
Antec True Blue 480 Watt power supply
Antec Tower/Server Case (black)
SIIG IDE Controller Card, needed to connect 4 Optical Drives
Pioneer 8x DVD Burner
Samsung DVD-ROM
Samsung CD-RW
Antec CD-RW
Vantec Fan controller --> 4 Blue LED Antec Fans

Note that when I initially built the machine DDR2 was super-expensive and PCI-Express video cards were rather hard to find. By the time either makes significant improvement to performance I'm sure I'll be building a multi-core AMD system to replace this one mwuahahhahaha >;D



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Posted by ReNo on Fri Sep 23rd at 1:28pm 2005

By specfically asking for American Northwest region people, are you saying you don't want people from other regions to vote? Seems a tad...limiting for an open forum.




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Posted by Underdog on Fri Sep 23rd at 1:34pm 2005

? quoting ReNo
By specfically asking for American Northwest region people, are you saying you don't want people from other regions to vote? Seems a tad...limiting for an open forum.

Read between the lines Mr. Reno. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">

I was insinuating that our local critic from Oregon not make this into a mountainous adventure when its merely a molehill walk in the park. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by Crono on Fri Sep 23rd at 1:37pm 2005

You'd think, specifically where I live in Oregon, that Intel products would be cheaper ... there's like 7 campuses around my house. BUT, they're not. The "northwest" has a bunch of stuff, but it's advertised just like anywhere else.

The only reason I prefer AMD is that they're cheaper for comparable power/speed. The one thing they've done though that gives them an upper hand is the 64-optimising-32-bit processor(s). Which, they're the only ones who did that, everyone else was like, "lets just stop supporting 32-bit stuff", since, unless I'm mistaken, is what they did when they upped memory operations other times. (moving from 8-bit instruction sets to 16-bit, then eventually 32. I believe it wasn't until later that 32-bit actually supported 16-bit programs ... still they may be slower) ...

Anyway, you should also cater to laptops. Since, it's a little harder to build one of those on your own. image

I know a lot of people who just use Laptops ... would you just chock that up to "pre-made".

I'm also wondering why it would matter if it were just pre-packaged ... would this include "custom jobs" some companies do? Since you didn't put it together yourself? (In other words, add a laptop/custom-order/other option. For the non-Dell, HP, Gateway, and Compaq consumers image)

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I was wondering why you targetted the NW-US ... thought maybe you had some idea that it would be different here :P

I'm not making anything into a "mountainous" anything.

Critic? ... image so misunderstood.

There was nothing to discuss when just talking about your original topic ... you should realize that I would have just voted, given the reason why I think that and that'd be it ...


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Posted by Underdog on Fri Sep 23rd at 1:43pm 2005

(laughs till ribs hurt)

I edited the options. Better?

(continues laughing)




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Posted by Crono on Fri Sep 23rd at 1:51pm 2005

It was just a suggestion ...

If that seemed so imperative why aren't my other suggestions taken into account?? (not for threads, but other things in general)


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Underdog on Fri Sep 23rd at 1:57pm 2005

? quoting Crono


If that seemed so imperative why aren't my other suggestions taken into account??

(continues laughing)

Imagine in the Potter books. Specifically the dead/ghost teacher whom teaches "History of magic" He drones on and on. His topics could be important but no one will ever know because they are asleep.

You drone Mr. Crono.

I can just imagine your voice as you type. You have got to sound like that old fella who does the "Clear eyes" commercial.




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Posted by fishy on Fri Sep 23rd at 2:45pm 2005

amd 3200xp with 2gigs of ddr400 ram on an nforce2 asus board that has lots of 'stuff'. 400gigs storage. fx5900 ultra with a 19" crt/15" lcd combo. also a coulpe of front panel things for the soundcard/media readers/firewire/fan speeds etc.

not quite at the cutting edge, but i don't think it'll be desperate for an upgrade anytime soon.




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Posted by BlisTer on Fri Sep 23rd at 4:02pm 2005

#1
mobo and cpu are 2 years old but in total it handles things ok.

barton 2500 on A7v8x-x mobo
768mb ram @333mhz fsb
GF 6800 GT



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Posted by rs6 on Fri Sep 23rd at 7:28pm 2005

AMD home made monster, although its not really a monster anymore, a year ago it was. Now its more of a high-end/mainstream homemade AMD.


AMd 64 3200+
1 GB RAM
80 GB HDD (god I need more room)
geforce 6800



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Posted by Underdog on Thu Oct 6th at 9:29pm 2005

AMD 3500+
Asus 939 motherboard
160 gig HD
DVD/RW
pc3200 ram
9800 pro
running WinXP Pro


There is no history until something happens, then there is.



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Posted by FatStrings on Fri Oct 7th at 2:42am 2005

my parents bought me a dell a while back though it sucks something major, o well i didnt have to pay for it
however, i am in the process of building a new one finally




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Posted by Y2kBen_2000 on Fri Oct 7th at 3:19pm 2005

My computer really started out as several other computers. Ya, when certain parts just stoped working, I canabalized parts of the others. They've been modified so much that I don't even know witch parts are from the origanal.

Oh, by the way, I don't buy prebuilt computers. Primarly, the manufacturer is trying to take up as little space as possible that they overlap everythin. Seriously, a year ago I was at High school when a teacher asked me tfigure out how to put some ram in her home computer; took me a good 3o minutes to figure out how to remove there big holding trey that blocked any easy access.

Second most, the last time I bought a store computer, when I brought it home, it decided to take up smokeing. But seriously, I was staring at the monitor so long that I didn't even realize that the room was filled with smoke; now that's dedication.



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